The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.